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BOOKstore Economics
How do bookstores choose the books they stock, and how does that affect what customers read? It may not seem like it, but every shelf in a bookstore i...
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
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If your company got bought by a private equity firm, how would you feel? Maybe a little nervous? You m...
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
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When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their prices (a so...
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
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For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning...
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
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What would you build on a piece of land whe...
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
When you come across a book at a yard sale or a bookstore, you might pay more attention to the words between the covers than the physical form of the...
Inside a BOOK auction
In the age of TikTok and Polymarket, it can be easy to overlook the humble book. But books are one of the most influential technologies ever invented....
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
The cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue sequins. You've almost certainly seen them at...
Chef vs. Robot
Robby the chef has lots of endearing qualities. He can make over 5000 dishes, he’s a consistent cook, and he’s never late for work. But he’s not a hum...
The laws of the office revisited
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If something is going wrong in your workplace, there's probably a law that explains why. Meetings alway...
Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
What do we want from sports? The very best athletes competing as hard as they know how, putting all their effort and training and natural ability to t...
The Business of Heated Rivalry
Heated Rivalry, the steamy hockey romance show, was made for about $2 million per episode. That is remarkably cheap for an hour-long drama.
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study toda...
The ICE hiring boom
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ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost? ...
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
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The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year?...
How to get what Greenland has, with permission
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Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell Greenland. And...
Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
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An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, journalism from the world of competit...
The Invention Invention
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Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and amb...
Iran, protests, and sanctions
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The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But t...
Riding with the repo man (update)
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A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car pa...
Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
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Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about it plays well with...
Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the pro...
A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch
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Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the people willing to r...
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?
Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The Market for Lemons. We...
Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty
Venezuela and Chevron have perhaps one of the strangest partnerships … ever? Chevron, one of the world’s most famous and profitable oil corporations,...
How much money President Trump and his family have made
Before President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick. At the start of hi...
So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.
Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the $35 trillion dollar question right now as the stock market soars higher and higher. The problem is that bubbles are...
How Black hair care grew Black power
The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro Sheen. But Afro Sheen did...
Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)
We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike and the capture of Venezuelan pr...
Indicators of the Year, Past and Future
2025 is finally over. It was a wild year for the U.S. economy. Tariffs transformed global trading, consumer sentiment hit near-historic lows, and stoc...
Why economists got free trade with China so wrong
With the year coming to a close, we're sharing our most popular Planet Money bonus episode of 2025!
As U.S. trade with China exploded in...
The Rest of the Story, 2025
Most stories keep going even after we set down our microphones and the music fades up. That's why, at the end of each year, we look back and we take s...
The summer I turned binge-y
On the eve of Netflix shoveling a fourish-hour chunk of Stranger Things onto Christmas Day, we visit the past, present, and future of binge-dropped te...
What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill
As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that’s inflat...
PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition
Welcome to the inaugural Planet Money Pop Culture Draft! In today's episode (a Planet Money+ episode we’re releasing into the main feed) we're gonna g...
When Chicago pawned its parking meters
In 2008, Chicago’s budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise money was to increase property taxes, but what politician wants...
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear
From nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most resource intensive technologies of the last century got their...
How hurricanes became a hot investment
A few years ago, the Jamaican government started making an unusual financial bet. It went to investors around the world asking if they'd like to wager...
Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)
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AI is already reshaping how people find work. Fewer entry-level jobs,...
Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)
Taylor Swift reaches new heights with her latest album, which is both divisive and record-breaking. And it’s fueled by an elaborate series of business...